I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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